Robert Elz schrieb:
| If we were to have political links for countries, why make them | based on cities at all? We could simply have Asia/Vietnam.
That's more or less how the timezone names started out. It changed because that doesn't work in general. Sure, it would be OK for Vietnam, but what would America/USA mean? (Or America/Canada ? etc...)
I don't think the new system really works better. It moves the problems from the database management to the people using it. How do you know you're supposed to select America/Indiana/Vincennes if you live in America/USA/Indiana/Martin_County and not America/Indiana/ Indianapolis? What happens if, e.g. Spain decides to move part of the country from CET (+01:00) to WET (+00:00)? Europe/Madrid would suddenly become wrong for all of the users without warning. If Europe/Spain was replaced with Europe/Spain/*, users could be prompted to select the correct zone. Claus